I've been wanting to play the son of Martin Riggs for a while now. The thing is, what I want is kind of complicated. I want me, the GM, and another player to pay respects to a Buddy Cop classic (Lethal Weapon obviously), and I want it in GURPS. It uses Pyramid 3/53, but you don't need that article to GM the game, because I can tell you that it entails making characters with more than 250 points, and I specifically want the buddy cop add on.
Me and You, Buddy:
+50 points
Required Trait:Buddy Bond 1 [5]*. The GM may wish to make Sense of Duty (Team) a prerequisite for Buddy Bond. Optional Traits:45 points chosen from among HT +1 to +4 [10/level], HP up to 1.5 x ST [2/level], Buddy Bond 2 or 3 [5/level], Combat Reflexes [15], Danger Sense [15], Daredevil [15], Enhanced Dodge 1-3 [15/level], Hard to Kill [2/level], Hard to Subdue [2/level], Rapid Healing [5] or Very Rapid Healing [15], Recovery [10], Serendipity 1-3 [15/level], or improve Luck to Extraordinary Luck [30] for 15 points or Ridiculous Luck [60] for 45 points
*Buddy Bond
5 points/level This trait does nothing when you're alone and never aids rolls made for your benefit.However, you get +1 per level (maximum three levels) on rolls you make to render direct assistance to one particular buddy. You receive this bonus when you make complementary skill rolls to support his tasks or use your skill to cover for his (Exploits,p. 5); in the specific situations of giving him a leg up (Exploits, p. 19), tackling him out of harm's way (Exploits,p. 28), or 'spotting' for him in combat (Exploits,p. 39); and whenever you roll to provide him with medical care (Exploits,pp. 40-41) or save his life (e.g., disarming a bomb handcuffed to him or using Swimming to rescue him from drowning). The GM decides when else it applies; it would probably help a Throwing roll to chuck your buddy ammo, but not your DX roll to catch ammo he threw your way.
Canonically, Martin Riggs and Lourna Cole had their son (my character) in 1998 so the game can't be set earlier than 2016. The Butters family also were pregnant in LW4, so my character's partner could be their son, or Nick Murtaugh, or even Nick Murtaugh's son if we advance the game a little further.
Thing is, I'm perfectly fine with tweaking roles around a bit. Canonically, Riggs was the Shooter, and Murtaugh was the Investigator template. I don't mind not being the shooter, but I joined a freeform game a while back and it was fun to play a Retro Riggs. Now I need that again, but I need the game to be far more Action-y and less restrictive than the freeform I was in. GURPS fits that bill.
No, I won't consider any other system. No I don't think 300 points is too high. Thanks for reading, and I hope you'll consider running this for me.
